Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.

To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon’s scalpel.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

Sometimes you have to face up to your fears to realize that they aren't actually real.